Song of the Day 12/7: The O’Jays, “For the Love of Money”

The Trump organization was found guilty of fraud and tax evasion, and though CFO Allen Weisselberg threw himself on the grenade, not a soul alive believes he did it on anybody’s orders but Trump’s.

This Philly soul classic is credited to three people — it grew out of a jam session — but Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff were along for the ride. It’s bass virtuoso Anthony Jackson’s percolating riff that makes this a much-sampled funk classic and propelled an edited version to No. 9 on the Hot 100 in 1974. It’s so good I can overlook the fact that it was used as the theme song to Trump’s game show gig, “The Apprentice.”

One artist actually used the song in a political context: Todd Rundgren covered it with Utopia on his 1982 anti-Reagan album “Swing to the Right.”